From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: ericabugca@yahoo.ca   
   Subject: Re: Turnabout Intruder: my review   
      
   On Apr 27, 1:23aam, Wiseguy  wrote:   
   > "Steven L."  wrote innews:6s-dnX2foo3L   
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   > > "Graeme"  wrote in message   
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   > >> On Apr 25, 10:58aam, "Steven L."  wrote:   
   > >> > In TOS, the only female captain we ever saw was a Romulan ("The   
   > >> > Enterprise Incident"). aThis suggested that Romulans believed in   
   > >> > gender equality more than Starfleet (at least the way Starfleet was   
   > >> > portrayed in TOS).   
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   > >> Maybe. aIt's hard to tell from just one crewman. aWe didn't see any   
   > >> women on Mark Lenard's ship.   
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   > > That Romulan female commander was in command of a flotilla of 3   
   > > Romulan starships. aThat's a bigger achievement for a woman than any   
   > > women had yet achieved in Starfleet (as TOS portrayed it).   
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   > > Janice Lester didn't suggest that such opportunities were rare in   
   > > Starfleet. aShe sounded like they were nonexistent.   
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   > > Heck, no aired episode of TOS ever featured even a female executive   
   > > officer or a female science officer in Starfleet. a(The female   
   > > executive officer in "The Cage" was dropped.)   
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   > > -- Steven L.   
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   > No aired episode showed Kirk going to the bathroom. aI'm sure he made a   
   > few trips during the five-year mission.   
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   Those bodily functions are aluded to in an early "Enterprise" episode,   
   when the bridge crew are responding to questions from children back on   
   Earth.  Clearly, at some point between "Enterprise" and the Original   
   Series, medical science had progressed to the point where bathrooms   
   are no longer needed :)   
   Erica   
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